JEE Advanced Chemistry question

ChemistryCoordination CompoundsJEE Advanced

When concentrated is added to a solution of ion, an intense blue colour develops due to the formation of which one of the following

Answer: (B)

Solution

Excess (from concentrated ) displaces the weaker-field water ligands around , and because is a bulky, weak-field ligand it favours the lower coordination number, forming the tetrahedral complex : $ + →

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